Jude Law Takes To The Stage At Refugee Camp In France

On Sunday 21st February 2016, Jude Law, Juliet Stevenson, Tom Odell, Sir Tom Stoppard, Matt Berry, ShappiKhorsandi and Toby Jones alongside a number of displaced refugees, ...

Kaleidoscope - Music With Mitch

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom is one of those all time bestsellers that never goes off the lists. Fans treat it as a guide book for better loving. For those who haven...

Retroscope - Jagjit Singh- A Sweet Recollection

I don’t recall when I first met the two, Jagjit and Chitra Singh. It must be sometime in the early 1970s, when Chitra came round to our tiny apartment on 29th Road TP...

This Japanese Band Makes Music With E-Waste

Open Reel Ensemble love producing weird sounds from obsolete tech?the more warped the better. The Japanese musicians connect old tape recorders, television sets, and ventil...

Her Name Was Gauhar

There is little documentation about India’s great performing artistes and even less about the women.

The tawaifs, despite their talent and refinement had the ...

Retroscope - Unsung Talents

It was the day they got married, remembers Mrs Salil Chowdhury, chuckling to herself, when the letter arrived inviting Chowdhury to Bombay. The particular letter that was t...

Meena Kumari - A Legend

Meena Kumari’s rags to riches saga has a poignant edge to it. Dubbedthe greatest tragedienne of the Indian screen, her doomed personal life flashing with deep tragedy...

Rhys Ifans Slams Wild Animal Circuses

Rhys Ifans has joined Animal Defenders Internationalto help wild animals forced to perform in circuses, slamming the outdated practice as “cruel”.His passionate...

Avril Lavigne Launches Campaign To Fight Lyme Disease

International, award-winning musician and philanthropist Avril Lavigne has teamed up with Prizeo, a digital fundraising platform, to launch a global campaign to raise FUNDS...